Are audiences ready for a rickety Indiana Jones?
by Christian Toto | Published May 16, 2008 Today’s stars keep themselves in better shape than ever before, and audiences seem to like that. In fact, box office receipts for recent flicks featuring some of our favorite aging action heroes are so encouraging that studio execs are practically rubbing their hands together in anticipation of the new Harrison Ford (Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) and Sylvester Stallone (Rambo) vehicles. Stallone certainly didn’t hurt himself when his more famous screen persona—Rocky Balboa—earned critical acclaim and a respectable $70 million in last year’s titular blockbuster, chasing doubts that the actor-director was simply giving himself a starring role in order to slow a career slide. Likewise, last year’s Live Free or Die Hard, starring 50-something Bruce Willis, raked in $134 million, and the oft-delayed Rush Hour 3 earned nearly $140 million despite its own 50-something star, Jackie Chan. Patricia King Hanson, a film historian and
